Lilian Waweru

A solution-driven legal practitioner with over 14 years of successful legal practice in private and public firms/organizations with expertise in commercial, litigation, legal research and advisory primarily within the oil and gas industry.

Lillian has served in the insurance & risk industry for five years giving her an edge in identifying risk while negotiating commercial transactions.

Lillian has negotiated and drafted several upstream service contracts, multi-client survey partnership agreements with a structured revenue sharing approach as well as participated in negotiations for the same both on behalf of the National Oil Company and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. 
Having also participated in joint venture negotiations with international investors towards optimizing local content opportunities in the Oil and Gas space, she also participated in a National task force drawn from sector stakeholders to draft the Petroleum Law and Policy in Kenya.

Lillian has undertaken board secretarial services while holding fort for the Company Secretary to the Board and has over time garnered expertise and formal training on corporate governance, leadership values, strategy implementation and legal compliance. She has instrumental experience in managing legal teams and steering legal strategy in litigation matters while working to oversee legal service providers to provide value and achieve organizational goals.
 

A solution-driven legal practitioner with over 14 years of successful legal practice in private and public firms/organizations with expertise in commercial, litigation, legal research and advisory primarily within the oil and gas industry.

Lillian has served in the insurance & risk industry for five years giving her an edge in identifying risk while negotiating commercial transactions.

Lillian has negotiated and drafted several upstream service contracts, multi-client survey partnership agreements with a structured revenue sharing approach as well as participated in negotiations for the same both on behalf of the National Oil Company and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. 
Having also participated in joint venture negotiations with international investors towards optimizing local content opportunities in the Oil and Gas space, she also participated in a National task force drawn from sector stakeholders to draft the Petroleum Law and Policy in Kenya.

Lillian has undertaken board secretarial services while holding fort for the Company Secretary to the Board and has over time garnered expertise and formal training on corporate governance, leadership values, strategy implementation and legal compliance. She has instrumental experience in managing legal teams and steering legal strategy in litigation matters while working to oversee legal service providers to provide value and achieve organizational goals.
 

2015: Master of Business Administration (Strategic Management), Daystar University

2006: Postgraduate Diploma in Law (Advocates Training Program), Kenya School of Law

2005: Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Moi University

2000: Kenya Certificate of Secondary Educaton, Ngiriambu Girls’ High School

Additional Training:

• Certified Public Secretary (CPS), KASNEB (2021)
• Certificate in Policy & Natural Resource Management, PETRAD (2015)
• Certificate in Introduction to Arbitration (ACIarb), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2015)
• Certificate in Development of Legal and Regulatory Frameworks in Oil and Gas, Global Acaademy for Mining, Oil and Gas
• Certificate in Negotiation, Financing and Dispute Resolution in Oil and Gas Transactions, International Centre for Energy (2013)
• Certificate of Proficiency in Insurance (COP), College of Insurance of East Africa (2010)

Publications: Made presentations in 9th and 7th East Africa Oil & Gas Conferences.